Which 1970s sports cars are the best buys? #313
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel go through the listings to see whether a £6k MGB is better buy than a £35k Land Rover Series II, or a £120k DeTomaso Pantera. Which would they both take home, given a lottery win?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Intercooler podcast, everybody, the podcast powered by car finance specialist |
| 0:08.9 | JBR Capital, Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel with you here. We're playing a game today, Andrew. |
| 0:15.6 | It's called Andrew Frankl Flies Blind. It is. You have no idea what's coming. We do this |
| 0:20.3 | occasionally though. I trawl the classifieds and I pick a theme and I choose a bunch of cars. Yeah. And I make a fool of myself. And I show you these cars on our screen here if you're watching. And by the way, you can now watch this podcast. It's on YouTube. You can just listen if that's what you prefer doing. And we will describe the cars for those you are not watching. Yeah. And can't therefore see the screen. We will tell you what they are. We will. So I've chosen, I think it's 12 cars. And I'm going to show you those cars one by one. And we're just going to have a little chat about them. Random selection or are they themed around a certain age or type or they are all 1970s enthusiastic |
| 0:56.8 | oh okay oh i'm happier already um i chose the 70s because i think it's an era that we don't talk |
| 1:02.6 | about that often and actually on a as much i'd like certainly okay and on a recent podcast um we |
| 1:08.2 | had a brief discussion about peak car. |
| 1:14.1 | Very few people talk about the 1970s. |
| 1:18.3 | Because cars weren't fundamentally reliable then. |
| 1:24.2 | I think the only thing, we had a big debate, didn't we, about someone suggesting there's no such thing as a bad car anymore, which I absolutely refute. |
| 1:28.1 | But the one thing I think you can say that has changed fundamentally about the cars is that |
| 1:32.7 | generally speaking, they do tend to get you where you're going. |
| 1:35.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.1 | In a way that could never be guaranteed, even with quite new cars of that sort of age. |
| 1:42.0 | Which I think is, but also I think that, you know, I'm 60 now. |
| 1:47.2 | So, you know, I was only 14 when the 70s ended. |
| 1:52.6 | Okay. |
| 1:53.4 | And I'm quite old. |
| 1:55.2 | So, you know, for most people, it's not really in their memory banks. |
| 2:03.5 | You know, most people listening to this either won't have been alive in the 70s or won't remember the 70s that well. |
| 2:11.2 | I just about do because I was four when they started, which is basically when my conscious memory started. |
| 2:17.3 | But, you know, I think we have to, I mean, I would love because I'm really interested in the era to spend much more time talking about pre-war stuff. |
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